Wi-Fi Friendly Underwater Internet To Become Better

As sensors and myriad other underwater electronics become more accessible to devices on land, like laptops and mobile phones, the underwater Internet will get better, so says Tommaso Melodia who is the director of the Wireless Networks and Embedded Systems Lab at the University of Buffalo in New York.

On the horizon, and without the need for specialized equipment or software, in a Wi-Fi underwater net there will likely be these abilities:

And just what will be the mechanics of it (as it is widely well-known through sonar technology, acoustic signals travel well under water)? “The Wi-Fi radio signal transmits to the buoy, which converts it into acoustic waves for the underwater sensors” – offers Hovannes Kulhandjian, graduate student working with Tomasso Melodia